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Re:Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new ag... by topspin on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @12:19PM (#27834795)
Point of information; certified autoland systems appeared on airliners in 1968. Yes, we're a ways off from the level of automation for a fully pilotless system as proposed here, but I think it a matter of a few years, perhaps a decade.
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Re:Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new ag... by jonfw on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @12:50PM (#27835189)
You know what they say- the last 20% of the problem is 80% of the effort. I think that these percentages probably understate things, but the point is that getting something to be mostly functional in ideal circumstances really isn't much of an achievement.
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Re:Electric aircraft set to take flight by 2026 under new ag... by topspin on Wednesday July 14, 2021 @08:34PM (#27840201)
"mostly functional in ideal circumstances"

Autoland was developed for and is usually used in poor conditions.

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